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Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) celebrate on vehicles taken from Iraqi security forces, at a street in city of Mosul, June 12, 2014. Since Tuesday, black clad ISIL fighters have seized Iraq's second biggest city Mosul and Tikrit, home town of former dictator Saddam Hussein, as well as other towns and cities north of Baghdad. They continued their lightning advance on Thursday, moving into towns just an hour's drive from the capital. Picture taken June 12, 2014. (REUTERS/Stringer)

Report: Islamic State Beheaded Several People From Syrian Tribe

The Islamic State (IS) continues to commit atrocities in Iraq as news broke Saturday that the radical jihadist group had reportedly executed 700 people from an enemy tribe in Syria, with civilians constituting the majority of the victims.

The group responsible for uncovering the executions, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, also reported that reliable source stated that the many of the victims were beheaded, according to Reuters.

Reuters stated that it could not independently verify news out of the war torn country due to escalating violence and restrictions placed on journalists.

The leader of the al-Sheitaat tribe pleaded for other Syrian tribes to join in their fight against IS and warned that the jihadist group will come for them next.

“We appeal to the other tribes to stand by us because it will be their turn next… If [IS] are done with us, the other tribes will be targeted after al-Sheitaat. They are the next target,” Sheikh Rafaa Aakla al-Raju declared in a video message.

The moderate and secular Syrian National Coalition has called for America to intervene and to use airstrikes similar to the ones used against IS forces fighting against Kurdish militias in northern Iraq.